Art History

Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Archit...

Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the...

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collec...

Introducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the prod...

As a response to the ubiquity of drawing in contemporary consciousness and a corresponding dearth of critical engagement with the medium, these col...

This open access neuroaesthetics textbook, the first in the world, is designed for teaching a semester module (14 meetings) to undergraduate/master...

Through exquisite artworks, glittering jewellery and weaponry discover how Ranjit Singh, one of the greatest figures in the history of India, estab...

A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a...

The Canadian War Memorials Exhibition opened in the galleries of the Royal Academy in Burlington House in January 1919. Featuring four hundred pain...

The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of historys greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harme...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architectur...

In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of...

Im Jahr 2024 wird der 250. Geburtstag Caspar David Friedrichs gefeiert. Für seinen internationalen Ruhm waren vor allem drei große Retrospektiven i...

A new, innovative approach to the work of Fluxus artist George Maciunas. Though widely recognized as the founder of the legendary Fluxus movement, ...

Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time ...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume I ranges from...

In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume II ranges fro...

Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overv...

Propaganda in Revolutionary Ukraine is a survey of domestic government and party printed propaganda in revolutionary Ukraine. It is the first accou...

The Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of historys greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legacy of Rembrandt Harme...